Sick Person Quotes

• Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Feel Better, Sick, Aspirin

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). “Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them”, McGraw-Hill Companies

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Jesus, Prayer, Powerful

  30 Copy quote

• To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Mean, Doctors, Car

  4 Copy quote

• A sick person is Allah's guest for as long as he is ill. Every day he is sick, God gives him countless rewards, as long as he says ' al hamdulillah', praise be
  to God, and does not fight it and complain. When God returns to him his health, he expiates his sins and gives him the status of the newly-born
  (completely pure and free of any sin). Illness is a mercy and a blessing.

  Kristiane Backer

  Fighting, Blessing, Long

  4 Copy quote

• Small does of advertising result in nothing, obviously. It's like giving a sick person half the medicine he needs. It just causes more suffering. Give the whole dose, and the cure will be certain and decisive.

  P. T. Barnum

  Medicine, Giving, Sick

  4 Copy quote

• What kind of sick person would answer rainbows?

  Troye Sivan

  Sick, Rainbow, Answers

  64 Copy quote

• Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a sick person, helps me,' Jesus said... Just as the priest can touch Jesus, so do we touch Jesus in the bodies of our patients... We have opportunities to do good that the priest doesn't have. Our mission is not finished when medicines are no longer of use. We must bring the soul to God; our word has some authority... Catholic doctors are so necessary!

  Gianna Beretta Molla

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

  19 Copy quote

• Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.

  Saeb Erekat

  Civilization, Israel, Sick

  "Israel putting services in place in West Bank, Gaza" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sick person is able to sense more than other people notice.

  Reinhold Schneider

  People, Sick, Able

  6 Copy quote

• A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Sick, Bed

  15 Copy quote

• The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person, just like alcoholism. Family and friends also become co-addicted.

  Sanna Lenken

  People, Sick, Abuse

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.

  John Green

  Thinking, Sick, Degrees

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

  Kate Zambreno

  Home, Sick, Expectations

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Death, Hate, Passion

  7 Copy quote

• No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Mean, Sick, Medical

  David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

  422 Copy quote

  Show source

• The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to grandparents or to a sick person... But if love is missing, joy is missing, nothing is fun. Jesus gives always gives us that love: he is its endless source. In the sacrament he gives us his word and he gives us the bread of life, so that our joy may be complete.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Jesus, Fun

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

  Jim Carrey

  Christmas, Daughter, Mother

  8 Copy quote

• Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Lying, Feel Better, People

  Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.246, Yearling

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses

  Carl Jung

  Emotional, Psychosis, Sick

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

  Florence Nightingale

  Home, Opportunity, Civilization

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.218, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Sick, Advice

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Paul Victor Cohn (1910). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made visible. The poor sick person is Christ again made visible.

  Gerard Majella

  Blessed, Sick, Saint

  13 Copy quote

• People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.

  Michael Zaslow

  Dog, Lying, Sick

  44 Copy quote

• I am never happier in the Lord than when I am in a bedroom with a sick person.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Sick, Bedroom, Lord

  Smith Wigglesworth (2012). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.89, Trumpet Press

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, Sick, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2624, Manonmani Publishers

  8 Copy quote

  Show source